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J. R. WILLIAMS. CIGAR WRAIKPER CUTTER.

No. 320,199. Patented June 16, 1885..

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CIGAR WRAPPER CUTTER.

' Patented June 16, 1885.

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UNrrii- S rnxrns JOHN R. WILLIAMS, OF NEX/VARK, NEWJERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM EGGERT, TRUSTEE, OF NENV YORK, N. Y.

CIGAR-WRAPPER CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,199 dated June 16, 1885.

Applioation filed May 28, 1864. (No model.)

.To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN It. WILLIAMs, a

. citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain "new and useful Improvements in Cigar-\Vrapper Outters, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in apparatus for cutting cigar or cigarette wrappers or binders wherein the leaf of tobacco'or other material is held upon the cutter by air suction; audit consists, essentially, of a supporting-platen, a cutter surrounding said platen, air-spaces upon the outer edges of the cutter, and exhaust mechanism connecting with the saidspaces whereby, whenaleaf of.

Figure 1 is a top view of an apparatus embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical transverse section of same.

In the drawings, A denotes the supportingplaten which is surrounded by a cutter, B,the latter being in the outline of a cigar or cigarette wrapper or binder. The-cutter B is inclosed by a casing, 0, between the'inner walls,

of which and the vertical sides of theknife is formed the chamber I). The upper surface of the casing G is madeconvex, and its central portions are removed, forming a space which snugly receives the cutter-B, the edges of the material surrounding said space being notched or serrated, as at afor left plain, as at k, for the purpose of permitting .the airito' be 'exhausteddownward through the chain her I).

The cutter B and easing 0 rest upon abase, E, of any suitable nature, which forms the bottom of the chamber D, and has an aperture, F, in which the upper end of the pipeG is secnred-, .the other end of said pipe being connected with' suitable exhaust mechanism.

In the drawings the aperture E is illustrated as being located centrally below the supporting-platen A, and leading from this aperture the baseE has-grooves b, which'form air-connections with the chamber Dpntheiouter sides of the cutter B. The upper edgesof the cutter B project slightly above the supporting platen A and the surrounding portions of the casing O, as shown.

The parts of the apparatus being arranged as described, and the exhaust mechanism set in motion, a leaf of tobacco placed over the cutter B, with its edges upon the notchesaand spaces :0 will-be there held by suction, acting along the line of said notches and spaces, until the wrapper has been cut by iiieansof'a roller passing over thecutter or by means of a mallet,or,otherwise. The wrapper after being cut from the leaf will rest on the platen A, within the edges of the cutter B,and,'being un affected by the air, maybe takenfrom the supporting-platen at will and without danger of mutilation. After one wrapper has been cut the leaf will be readjusted over the cutter and another wrapper out therefrom, and so on until the leaf has been consumed.

In Letters Patent numbered 297,897 and 297 ,898,'d ated April 29, 1884., and Letters Pat-- ent numbered 298,715, dated May 13,1884,

granted to me, I have described with great particularity-apparatus for cutting cigar-wrap-' pers from leaves held upon the cutter by suction, but in all of said patents the leaf is heldby the action of the air upon that portion thereof located within the cutter. In said patents-the platen inclosed by the cutter is in connection with the exhaust,and is used for holding the leaf. The platen embodied in the present application has no connection with the exhaust, and is employed merely for supporting the wrapper until it can be removed by-hand. WhatI claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a supportingplaten, of an upwardly-extending cutter bounding the platen, a suitable casin'g surrounding the cutter and provided with openings on the outer side of the latter, and exhaust mechanism for drawing the airthrough, said opeu- Signed atNew York, in the county of New id ings,-substantia11y as set forth. 7 York, and State of New York, this 19th day 3 In an apparatus for. cutting wrappers or of May, A. D. 1884:. bindersfor' cigars 01' eigarettes,the supporting- I A 5 platen A, bounded by an upwardly-projecting JOHN B; WILLIAMS.

cutter, B, as described, in combination with 1 r the surrounding casing O,having air-spaces, Witnesses: adjacent to the cute: edges of the cutter, and CHAS. GFGILL,

exhaust mechanism, substantially as set forth. HERMAN GUsTOW. 

